Yale "News" Poll Reveals Bulldogs Swing To War

Seventy-seven percent of Yale is in favor of extending increased war aid to the opponents of Germany, a recent poll of students in New Haven shows.

This figure indicates a marked rise in interventionist sentiment since last year, according to the Yale News, which conducted the poll. 21 percent of the 2,692 men who voted favored "full unrestricted military and naval participation in the war," surpassing the 6 percent who held the same view last February.

The remaining 65 percent qualified their interventionist tendencies when they voted for "extending aid to England, China, and Russia on a constantly increasing scale."

Showing a drop of 3 percent since the last poll, the extreme isolationists numbered 16 percent of the total.

An indication of the move toward eventual all-out aid is evident in that 11 percent of those polled checked "undecided" for immediate entry into the war, and "yes" for further aid short of war. "This attitude," says the news, "reflects the sentiments of these who are uncertain whether or not eventual declaration of war is necessary."

The poll shows, in a class and school breakdown, that the class of 1944 and the Law School have the greatest amount of interventionist sentiment, 80 percent in each case favoring questions one and two. The Freshmen come close behind with 77 percent, Seniors with 75 percent, and Juniors with 73 percent. In the Graduate School 67 percent also concur, whereas the Divinity School maintained its "stay-out" attitude with only 41 percent favoring further isolation.

As in last year's poll, states the News, the results show an increasing tendency toward isolationism progressing across the country to the West coast. The South, Middle Atlantic, and New England sections average 80 percent in favor of greater participation; the Middle West averages 74 percent; while the Pacific and Rocky Mountain regions show only 59 percent." 'Statistics     Yes  No  Undecided 1.  Full unrestricted military and naval participation in the war  572 21.25%  1821 67.75%  299 11% 2.  Extending aid to England, China, and Russia on a constantly increasing scale, using American maritime, naval, and military resources to insure delivery, but refraining from unrestricted belligerency  1446 56%  1197 42.2%  49 1.8% 3.  Withdrawing all assistance from England unless she agrees to open negotiations immediately for peace with Germany  197 7.6%  2396 88.77%  99 3.7% 4.  A return to the strict neutrality implied in the original Neutrality Act  429 16%  2227 82.7%  36 1.3% (Note: Since on some ballots two questions were answered in the affirmative or negative the figures above will not aggregate exactly the total number of ballots cast.)